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Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. scored with a knighthood to Great-Grandson Thomas Cook, 34, "the youngest knight dubbed since 1911"; British Broadcasting Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing...
...Northern Trust Co.'s meeting a fourth-generation Chicago banker was elevated to the board of his family's bank last week-Solomon Byron Smith, 31, vice president son of President Solomon Albert Smith, a grandson of that bank's founder and a great-grandson of a powder salesman who helped found what was later the cornerstone of big Continental Illinois...
...scarlet evening gown, high-necked in front, sleeveless and backless was completed by the Paris House of Worth last week to the exact measurements of Mrs. Simpson, rushed to Madame Tussaud's waxworks, London. There dextrous British Mr. John Theodore Tussaud, great-grandson of the original French Madame, was personally finishing up a wax head of Mrs. Simpson while four trusty Tussaud modelers made the rest...
Died. Russell Benjamin Harrison, 82, only son of 23rd President Benjamin Harrison and great-grandson of 9th President William Henry Harrison; in Indianapolis. He was successively an engineer, U. S. Assay Office superintendent, cattle rancher, journalist (Judge), lawyer and Mexican consul at Indianapolis...
...Cottenham to write about the Phantom III. No fool, the Earl has worked in the aviation department of Vickers Ltd., the leading British armorers, but his description of the time he first drove a Phantom III has become a little classic of Mayfairese. Its title: The Well Behaved Great-Grandson of a Ghost...